Aeschylus’s The Persians is commonly described as “the world’s oldest surviving play”. Here we have a group of councillors and wives of warriors, waiting anxiously for news about a great empire’s foreign adventure against a minor border enemy – a pesky little bunch of Hellenes that the ruler was sure could be cruches once and for all, thus avenging a surprise defeat suffered by his father.
This script from 472BC could, in 2006, hardly be more topical. Yet George Eugeniou’s production at the Theatro Technis in Camden resists the temptation to draw direct parallels. Instead here we have a highly classically presented production,
I’ve just put up a review on My London Your London.
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